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George Matica
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"The GLONASS constellation has suffered a major problem for the second time this month.

On Monday, April 14, eight GLONASS satellites were simultaneously set unhealthy for about half an hour, meaning that most GLONASS or multi-constellation receivers would have ignored those satellites in positioning computations...."

GLONASS Loses Control Again


 
Posted : April 23, 2014 7:59 am
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The article doesn't say, but I have to guess that those 8 satellites were over Russia, in range of their control stations, during that 1/2 hour outage.


 
Posted : April 23, 2014 5:02 pm